About Me

My love for anime and otaku culture began around the age of ten. I remember watching Sailor Moon and Dragonball on TV and yearning for more cartoons like them not knowing at all what they were. I would go to the comic book store and buy bootleg copies of anime from the back room. I’d buy fansubs online from sketchy websites and manga from Japan and print out translations and read along. To put it in short terms, I’m an older otaku, a” VHS Otaku” as I’ve dubbed myself. My collection of anime began in the 90’s and once legitimate stores began selling it I was able to purchase some of my favorite anime on VHS tapes followed by DVD’s (with only two or three episodes at forty dollars apiece). Somewhere in the mix of adolescence and adulthood anime fell to the wayside. It wasn’t that I’d stop liking anime, it was a combination of being in college, having no friends around that liked anime, and the cost of collecting. Around five years ago I had a child. I passed time between feedings and cleaning in the early cooped up in the house stage by binge watching anime that I’d never gotten the chance to see on Hulu and Netflix. I was lucky because there was a huge mainstream boom of anime pouring through American culture. Hulu had a huge anime catalog and Crunchyroll was just starting out. During this time I rediscovered my love of anime and Japanese culture. I began reaching out and finding communities online for other weebs and found that in the twenty years that passed between my blossoming love of anime and the present time so much had changed. Anime was readily available to stream, merchandise was everywhere from Hot Topic to B&N, and there were a communities of artists making wonderful fan art. I ordered patches and pins from different artists I admire and created wearable art showing off my favorite series. I found a tattoo artist that tattooed me with my favorite anime characters. I was ordering figures from Japan every week…I’d gone full on weeb. I began drawing again like I did in college. I began working on my art. After a year of collecting pins and patches from other artists I wanted to make some of my own. I saved and bought a new computer and all the equipment to start my own pin business.  I follow a lot of great pin makers and wanted to make pins a 30-something-chan like me can appreciate, I wanted to make pins about anime that I grew up with and anime that are important to me. I love wearing my pins, shirts, and anime tattoos all as a way to connect to the anime loving community. I hope I can make pins that people cherish that show my love of anime.

This shop will feature my digital work and eventually my traditional fan art works. I plan to sell enamel pins, acrylic charms and stickers and hope to move on to selling prints eventually. Thanks so much for stopping by my shop and reading this. If you have any questions feel free to contact me. Find me on Instagram for all of the latest updates. Let me know anything you’d like to see!